Who Has Been Busy Destroying Democracy? › American Greatness
Victor Davis Hanson
5–6 minutes
“Destroying democracy”—the latest theme of the left—can be defined in many different ways.
How about attempting to destroy constitutional, ancient, and hallowed institutions simply to suit short-term political gains?
So, who in 2020, and now once again, has boasted about packing the 156-year-old, nine-justice Supreme Court?
Who talks frequently about destroying the 187-year-old Senate filibuster—though only when they hold a Senate majority?
Who wants to bring in an insolvent left-wing Puerto Rico and redefine the 235-year-old District of Columbia—by altering the Constitution—as two new states solely to obtain four additional liberal senators?
Who is trying to destroy the constitutionally mandated 288-year Electoral College by circumventing it with the surrogate “The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact?”
Does destroying democracy also entail weaponizing federal bureaucracies, turning them into rogue partisan arms of a president?
So who ordered the CIA to concoct bogus charges of “collusion” to sabotage Trump’s 2016 campaign, the 2016-2017 transition, and the first 22 months of Trump’s first term?
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